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Speaking of the Great Song Dynasty, people have the impression that this is a weak imperial court that has always been flattened by the surrounding countries. All generations of emperors were also very sad, because the system problems and rights were constrained, the power was dispersed among the three provinces, they had no right to decide at all, the two Southern and Northern Song Dynasties, even few emperors dared to kill the scholars, so that many traitors were only exiled, especially in the late Northern Song Dynasty, Song Huizong and Song Qinzong, weak and incompetent, repeatedly defeated, greedy and afraid of death, only know grievances and seek peace, and the compensation for cutting land is still imprisoned. In particular, Song Qinzong, who had only been emperor for one year and two months, buried the Great Song Dynasty, and was an unassertioned and incompetent monarch.
But if you read history carefully, you will find that this seemingly incompetent Song Qinzong was not a simple figure at that time, he was not as indecisive as most people think, and he was resolute and reckless in doing things, daring to take risks. He did everything that his ancestors and descendants did not dare to do.
Song Gaozu once secretly made an oath that future generations would not kill shi dafu and those who wrote to the writers, and made a heavy oath [Descendants have this oath, heaven will be killed] The eight emperors before Song Qinzong never dared to violate the oath, and never killed a first-level official in more than a hundred years. However, Song Qinzong was only in power for a little more than a year, and while his father Song Huizong was still alive, he almost purged several key figures under his father, such as Cai Jing, Li Gang, and Cai Qi, who had been degraded, and was already lucky, Wang Yi placed Yongzhou and secretly executed on the way; Liang Shicheng was demoted to the post of deputy envoy of the Changhua Army, and died on the way; Tong Guan was demoted to Jiyang Jun, who was given death on the way; Zhu Xun was demoted to Xunzhou and was soon beheaded and executed. Zhao Liangsi, the grand master of guanglu temple who sacrificed the gold to destroy Liao Ce, was also given death. Cai Jing's son Cai You (蔡宇), who had served as chancellor, was also given death, and another of Cai Jing's sons, Libu Shangshu (礼部尚書), was also given death. Although Liang Shicheng and Tong Guan were eunuchs, they both held important positions in the imperial court, and kaifu Yi and the three divisions were equivalent to the deputy prime ministers, especially Tong Guan, who knew the Privy Council, which was equivalent to the position of chairman of the military commission, the supreme commander of the state, and was also the king of Guangyang County. Not only did he not do these deeds before the emperor, but no one dared to do them in the future except for his younger brother Zhao Zhao who killed Yue Fei and Zhang Bangchang. It shows the strength of his boldness and determination.
Song Qinzong also showed an extraordinary spirit of adventure, after the Song-Jin war, the Song army could not resist the iron hooves of the Jin people at all, and in desperation, it had to cut the land and seek peace, he sent Zhang Bangchang and his brother Zhao Zhuo to the Jinying to negotiate, but he took a huge risk behind his back and planned a big conspiracy. There was a great general in the Jin Kingdom named Yelü Yuyan, who was originally an old vassal of the Liao State, and defected to the Jin State very early, and made a lot of merit in the Jin State, and his status was higher. The two countries negotiated peace, the Jin State sent Xiao Zhonggong to the Song Dynasty, Song Qinzong asked Xiao Zhonggong to bring his own handwritten letter of persuasion to Yelü Yuyan, the secretary sealed and wax pills, hidden in the bun of Xiao Zhonggong to bring to Yelü Yuyan, intending to rebel against him, but Xiao Zhonggong superficially agreed, and after returning to the Jin Kingdom, he offered the wax pills to Yan Zongwang, and as a result, I don't say that you also know, Jin Guo did not trust the surname Zhao to keep his promises, and was unwilling to negotiate, and the soldiers directly surrounded the Northern Song capital city of Bieliang.
Maybe everyone thinks that this is the end of the matter, no, not yet, this Song Qinzong has done a more risky thing, he personally went to the Jinying to negotiate to show his sincerity, the minister in the city strongly opposed, but the desperate Song Qinzong still did not listen to the dissuasion to personally enter the Jinying to negotiate, this trip became a meat bun to beat the dog, there is no return. It is said that this time Song Qinzong entered the gold camp is a matter of appreciation, and it is quite a faceless thing to see that the lives are ruined, the victory is hopeless, and the willingness to take risks alone is quite a faceless thing. But in fact, Song Qinzong dared to do this, completely out of his fan's self-confidence, completely underestimated the insidiousness of the Jin people, the Jin people proposed negotiations this time, Song Qinzong believed without doubt, and even ordered Zhao Zhuo not to rush to qin wang, and had reached an armistice agreement with the Jin people.
To sum up, there are many inevitable factors in the tragic end of Song Qinzong, song Qinzong wanted to show himself after taking the throne, and took a very big step in politics, when the Northern Song Dynasty was facing the step-by-step pressure of the Jin Dynasty, Song Qinzong violated the ancestral precepts at this critical juncture and carried out a great purge within the imperial court, seven important ministers were killed, and four important officials were deposed, causing shocks in the government and the opposition. Many of these ministers who were killed or deposed were defective and belonged to the traditional sense of traitors, but the song dynasty's three-province system belonged to centralized power and not dictatorship, making it impossible for any of them to monopolize the government, although these people did have problems in some aspects, they were all old ministers who had been operating in key positions in the DPRK for many years, and it was still possible to take one or two demonstrations in a state of extreme instability. This is a dangerous thing to do under high pressure. In addition, when the gap between the strength of the enemy and us is relatively large, we should learn to be patient and cultivate obscurity, rather than relying on the confidence of the fans to opportunistically take advantage. Song Qinzong had just succeeded to the throne, in his twenties, it was precisely when he was young and vigorous, after ascending to the throne, he was eager to express himself, wanted to resist strongly, and his own combat strength was not good, and he wavered between war and peace, which eventually led to the humiliation of the country.